I looked really hard at that map to find green spots : light green would have infuriated me, dark green would have made me literally lough out loud. With the way Israeli politics tend to be hilarious, I really expected to find at least one of both, but didn't.

I looked really hard at that map to find green spots : light green would have infuriated me, dark green would have made me literally lough out loud. With the way Israeli politics tend to be hilarious, I really expected to find at least one of both, but didn't.

There is nothing even close to Meretz winning, the biggest percent they got was in Niran (one of the Red ones in the east), where they got 9.1%. There only 55 votes in total: ZU-47 Meretz-5 YA-3, with zero votes for everyone else.

I'm a bit late, but is it not a little surprising that the towns on the edge of the Gaza strip went for the Zionist Union?

I would have thought they would be strongly Likud given the rocket attacks and, I believe, a demographic that is largely Sephardi Jews, who tend to be reliably conservative.

All those Zionist Union places near Gaza are mostly Ashkenazi Kibbutzim or Moshvim and not towns, all the urban places in the area went heavily for the right. Being next to Gaza has little effect, demographics are far more important.

I'm a bit late, but is it not a little surprising that the towns on the edge of the Gaza strip went for the Zionist Union?

I would have thought they would be strongly Likud given the rocket attacks and, I believe, a demographic that is largely Sephardi Jews, who tend to be reliably conservative.

All those Zionist Union places near Gaza are mostly Ashkenazi Kibbutzim or Moshvim and not towns, all the urban places in the area went heavily for the right. Being next to Gaza has little effect, demographics are far more important.

Not exactly Ashkenazi, the Meretz Kibbutzim there are mostly Argentinians and other south americans

I'm a bit late, but is it not a little surprising that the towns on the edge of the Gaza strip went for the Zionist Union?

I would have thought they would be strongly Likud given the rocket attacks and, I believe, a demographic that is largely Sephardi Jews, who tend to be reliably conservative.

All those Zionist Union places near Gaza are mostly Ashkenazi Kibbutzim or Moshvim and not towns, all the urban places in the area went heavily for the right. Being next to Gaza has little effect, demographics are far more important.

Not exactly Ashkenazi, the Meretz Kibbutzim there are mostly Argentinians and other south americans

Not exactly Ashkenazi, the Meretz Kibbutzim there are mostly Argentinians and other south americans

Most South American Jews are Ashkenazi.

Ethnically, they're not Ashkenazi in customs and such from what I saw. But this comment was basically a pun

Argentinian Jews, mostly, come from Ukraine and the like. They might drink mate and understand Ladino (well, I understand it as well - every Spanish speaker does), but they are generally as Ashkenazi as anybody. Different for Mexican Jews: here it is a mixture of different communities. But I am still to meet an Argentinian sefard

Most of the jew I know are Azhkenazi (one of by best friends is from czech descend, although he told one that he is part sephardic), but some people I know have last names that I suppose are sephardic (I don't really know). One funny case is Nicolas Massu, who is part jewish part palestinian so I count him as mizrahi.